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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless.

Living on the Edge chronicles a lifetime of experiences, observations, and achievements of Tyee Ha'wiih Earl Maquinna George, First Hereditary Chief of Ahousaht.

Sayo Masuda has written the first full-length autobiography of a former hot-springs-resort geisha.

Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia.

Told against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean War, the author recounts the events of her childhood as a foreigner in Japan and her subsequent return to Korea.

Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury.

In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There - looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once wate

Although legally blind since birth, Kuusisto passed as sighted for more than thirty years.

This is a book about a young Canadian girl, Mae Brown, who exhibited intelligence, stamina, commitment and courage under the exceptionally incapacitating condition of being both deaf and blind.

Frederick Douglass’s memoir depicts his life as a slave, from his birth into southern slavery to his inspiring fight to learn how to read, escape as a free man and become a leader of the abolitioni

In the incredibly giftable little book Michelle Obama, readers get an inside look at the remarkable First Lady of the United States. Michelle Obama is a strong role model for women everywhere.